With Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths surging across the state thanks, in part, to his own incompetence, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt is once again turning to a tried, true and highly-ineffective way of battling a global pandemic – prayer.

Last night, we learned via the Ogle Mole Network that Governor Stitt hosted a Zoom meeting with members of the Oklahoma clergy.

In the meeting, he reviewed carefully crafted, PR-polished, talking points, listened to Evangelical church leaders praise his leadership, ignored questions about mask mandates, and announced he’ll be calling for a day of prayer and fasting on December 3rd.

Here’s a breakdown of the meeting that Diana Davies – a minister for the First Unitarian Church in Oklahoma City – shared on Facebook. She got a last-minute invite to the Evangelical-focused call thanks to the Oklahoma Conference of Churches.

Saturday night’s Bedlam beatdown touched all levels of the OSU football program.

Over the weekend, reports surfaced on social media that an OSU equipment manager was jumped in the stands on Saturday night while trying to stop OU fans from following their cool-yet-assholish tradition of throwing the opponents’ football out of the stadium following a made field goal.

Here’s a first-hand report from the equipment manager’s aunt:

Sometimes, maybe most of the time, being a sports fan hurts your feelings.

The thrill of a big win is the dopamine rush that keeps you going, following your team and buying overpriced merchandise and $10 beers at the arena. But invariably, something happens that sucks the wind out of you.

This last weekend, Oklahoma City let out a loud collective ‘NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!’ upon hearing the news that beloved Thunder center Steven Adams was traded to the New Orleans Pelicans in a 4-team deal. In Sam Presti’s determined quest to own every single draft pick for the next decade, he jettisoned the one player that bound OKC fans together.

It’s clear that Presti is trying to gut the team for a rebuild, but I think it’s important to sometimes retain players that fans want to see. Adams is still a talented player who is a terrifying beast in the paint. He was also the soul of the team in a way. He’s hillarious, has a humble personality, and always has a good quip in the press pool. If there’s any Thunder player past or present that you’d wanna hang out with, it’s Steven Adams. He just seems like a cool dude who happens to be seven feet tall and built like a superhero.

I’m trying really hard to not write this like a eulogy, because in his own words:

Whether you’re pro-mask or anti-mask, pro-lockdown or anti-lockdown, or pro-infect-your-parents-at-Thanksgiving or anti-infect you-parents-at-Thanksgiving, one of the few things both sides of the Oklahoma Coronamania echo chambers can agree on is that Gov. Kevin Stitt has done a terrible and puzzling job handling the pandemic.

Earlier this week, Stitt Blade took the bold step to mandate that all bars and restaurants – from the trendiest watering holes to the dingiest dives – close by 11 p.m., effectively ruining Thanksgiving holiday party plans for the tens of thousands of Oklahomans who aren’t takinging the Coronavirus seriously. He also mandated that all state employees wear masks, which bigs the question – state employees weren’t already required to wear masks? WTF, Stitt.

The move, which felt more like a poorly thought out PR stunt than an actual attempt to slow the spread of the virus, drew outrage and criticism from virtually all sides of the Coronamania echo chamber. Outside of the typical Derplahoman “Any government action to address the pandemic is tyranny!” crowd, the primary complaints were: